The appeasement circle ...
A number of recent OpEds and Editorials in the Financial Times offer, in a number of ingenious ways, how to appease the regime of the mullahs in its quest to get its hands on a nuclear device. Starting with the latest proclamation (Financial Times Editorial, April 10, 2006, "Explore all diplomatic possibilities on Iran"), it laments the fact that the British proposal (ala John Sawers, see March 24 weblog) for offering mullahs incentives, was outed last month in New York. This brings to mind the "incentives" offered to the same mullahs in the 80's in the hope that they would soon stop removing westerners from the streets of Beirut, only to find out later that the hostage taking business would thrive more efficiently than before.
In another outrageous piece, this time by the appeasement cheerleader, Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations, and James Dobbins of Rand Corporation (Financial Times, April 4, 2006), they claim that only "dialogue can stop Iran at the nuclear threshold." Nothing else will, in their view! They offer that the offer of US incentives, again, is the best guarantor of forcing the mullahs change minds and course, all at the same time. How they want to accomplish this is not entirely clear; stabilizing the Persian Gulf appears to be one of the ways. Last time we checked, the mullahs were the main engine of instability and havoc in the region. Everytime the regime has been mired at home in opposition and restlessness, it has projected outwardly in hawkish and instability in the region and beyond. Takeyh, whose last name in Farsi means place of fundamentalist worship, and Dobbins pay lipservice to Iran being the source of a "great civilization with a long history" in a reference to the misplaced claim that the right to acquire nuclear technology is equal to "national right". The Iranians foremost right is to be free of the theocray and the right to claim their country and heritage. This is what the Iranians want and claim as their national right. Everything else is secondary.
In another outrageous piece, this time by the appeasement cheerleader, Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations, and James Dobbins of Rand Corporation (Financial Times, April 4, 2006), they claim that only "dialogue can stop Iran at the nuclear threshold." Nothing else will, in their view! They offer that the offer of US incentives, again, is the best guarantor of forcing the mullahs change minds and course, all at the same time. How they want to accomplish this is not entirely clear; stabilizing the Persian Gulf appears to be one of the ways. Last time we checked, the mullahs were the main engine of instability and havoc in the region. Everytime the regime has been mired at home in opposition and restlessness, it has projected outwardly in hawkish and instability in the region and beyond. Takeyh, whose last name in Farsi means place of fundamentalist worship, and Dobbins pay lipservice to Iran being the source of a "great civilization with a long history" in a reference to the misplaced claim that the right to acquire nuclear technology is equal to "national right". The Iranians foremost right is to be free of the theocray and the right to claim their country and heritage. This is what the Iranians want and claim as their national right. Everything else is secondary.
posted by Alborz Ledger at 4:46 AM
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